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Oh jesus.. no it's not! Here is an example:

Define a class and on that class create a public event


Public Class Whatever
  ...
  Public Event MyEvent(ByVal SomeValue As String)
  ...
  Public Sub RunHack(ByVal whatever as String)
    MyEvent(whatever);
  End Sub
End Class

Then in another class try this:


Public Class TwatFace
  ...
  WithEvents myHack as Whatever
  ...
  ...
  Public Sub ABadIdea(ByVal whatever as String) handles myHack.MyEvent
    MsgBox(whatever)
  End Sub
  ...
  Public Sub LetsBreakEventHandling()
    Dim fcukit As New Whatever
    myHack = fcukit
    myHack.RunHack("Shoot yourself now...")
  End Sub
  ...
End Class


What happens if we call LetsBreakEventHandling? Well, it should never compile... it does. It should probably freak out and crash, but you'll see a message box happily telling you "Shoot yourself now...". And I know all of this because the fcukwit programmers, on contract from India, that we used before I took over didn't know about "AddHandler Xxxxx, AddressOf Yyyyy".

Even with option explicit and strict on, you can do this:


Dim X as Integer
X = 99
Dim Y as Boolean ''uninitialised, so compiler decides

Select Case X
  Case 1, 2
    Something()
  Case 3, 4
    Somethingelse()
  Case Y
    WhatThef--kDoesThisEvaluateTo()
End Select


VB is dangerous, plain and simple and there's nothing you can do in VB that can't be done in a safer .Net language at a similar speed.

Edited 2013-01-16 16:43 UTC